Jeremiah:22

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* Thus says the LORD : "Go down to the house of the king of Judah , and there speak this word , * and say , "Hear the word of the LORD , O king of Judah , you who sit on the throne of David , you and your servants and your people who enter these gates ! * Thus says the LORD : "Execute judgment and righteousness , and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor . Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger , the fatherless , or the widow , nor shed innocent blood in this place . * For if you indeed do this thing , then shall enter the gates of this house , riding on horses and in chariots , accompanied by servants and people , kings who sit on the throne of David . * But if you will not hear these words , I swear by Myself ," says the LORD , "that this house shall become a desolation .""' * For thus says the LORD to the house of the king of Judah : "You are Gilead to Me , The head of Lebanon ; Yet I surely will make you a wilderness , Cities which are not inhabited . * I will prepare destroyers against you , Everyone with his weapons ; They shall cut down your choice cedars And cast them into the fire . * And many nations will pass by this city ; and everyone will say to his neighbor , "Why has the LORD done so to this great city ?' * Then they will answer , "Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God , and worshiped other gods and served them ."' * Weep not for the dead , nor bemoan him ; Weep bitterly for him who goes away , For he shall return no more , Nor see his native country . * For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah , king of Judah , who reigned instead of Josiah his father , who went from this place : "He shall not return here anymore , * but he shall die in the place where they have led him captive , and shall see this land no more . * "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness And his chambers by injustice , Who uses his neighbor 's service without wages And gives him nothing for his work , * Who says , "I will build myself a wide house with spacious chambers , And cut out windows for it , Paneling it with cedar And painting it with vermilion .' * "Shall you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar ? Did not your father eat and drink , And do justice and righteousness ? Then it was well with him . * He judged the cause of the poor and needy ; Then it was well . Was not this knowing Me ?" says the LORD . * "Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness , For shedding innocent blood , And practicing oppression and violence ." * Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah , king of Judah : "They shall not lament for him , Saying , "Alas , my brother !' or "Alas , my sister !' They shall not lament for him , Saying , "Alas , master !' or "Alas , his glory !' * He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey , Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem . * "Go up to Lebanon , and cry out , And lift up your voice in Bashan ; Cry from Abarim , For all your lovers are destroyed . * I spoke to you in your prosperity , But you said , "I will not hear .' This has been your manner from your youth , That you did not obey My voice . * The wind shall eat up all your rulers , And your lovers shall go into captivity ; Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated For all your wickedness . * O inhabitant of Lebanon , Making your nest in the cedars , How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you , Like the pain of a woman in labor ? * "As I live ," says the LORD , "though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim , king of Judah , were the signet on My right hand , yet I would pluck you off ; * and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life , and into the hand of those whose face you fear--the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the Chaldeans . * So I will cast you out , and your mother who bore you , into another country where you were not born ; and there you shall die . * But to the land to which they desire to return , there they shall not return . * "Is this man Coniah a despised , broken idol -- A vessel in which is no pleasure ? Why are they cast out , he and his descendants , And cast into a land which they do not know ? * O earth , earth , earth , Hear the word of the LORD ! * Thus says the LORD : "Write this man down as childless , A man who shall not prosper in his days ; For none of his descendants shall prosper , Sitting on the throne of David , And ruling anymore in Judah ."'

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